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Before horses, ass hybrids were bred for warfare
Before the introduction of the domestic horse in Mesopotamia, valuable equids were being harnessed to ceremonial or military…
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Origin of domestic horses finally established
The modern horse was domesticated around 2200 years BCE in the northern Caucasus.
In the centuries that followed it…
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Neandertal and Denisovan blood groups deciphered
The blood groups of three Neandertal females and one Denisovan female have been determined by a Marseille-based…
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Jebel Sahaba: A succession of violence rather than a prehistoric war
Since the 1960s, the Jebel Sahaba cemetery (Nile Valley, present-day Sudan) has become the emblem of organised warfare…
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Ancient seashell resonates after 18,000 years
Almost 90 years after its discovery, a large shell from the ornate Marsoulas Cave in the Pyrenees has been studied by a multidisciplinary team from…
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